On April 12, 2022, shortly before 11 p.m., 27-year-old Junior Pimentel De La Cruz was shot and killed on Walnut Park in Roxbury. Police found two men with gunshot wounds; Pimentel De La Cruz, a Dorchester resident, was pronounced dead at the scene and a second victim was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office described the shooting as a targeted attack and said it did not appear to pose a random threat to the community. Boston homicide detectives took over the investigation and questioned two people of interest in the immediate aftermath, but no arrests or charges have been announced and there has been no public update on those interviews.

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact Boston homicide detectives.